The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-09-15

- .lSelvcS Of it.
PRESIDENT Lee evidently regards free
tuition and the bonus as the cornerstone
OF his college. Yet the draft of the bill
that Was to be passed last year in our
Legislature establishing separate col
le8c was reported to contain a provision
requiring tuition fees. This was mere
bind, or else serious divergence from
the plan Of the Missi, sippi College that
we have all been brought to consider q
model. 1t was a case of Hamlet with
the Prince of Denmark left out. Without
tins free tuition and bonus a separate
agricultural college in South Carolina
ioi poor farmers sons would be mao-
nliicont failure. Yet how is a public
sentiment that would not tolerate free
tuition only in the South Carolina Col
lege going to be brought to the point of
teaching youth free and paying him
besides?
81 pause for reply" y.
Columbia, 5. O., August, 1887.
Something on the Other Side.
10 the Editor of the News and Courier:
1t is the arguments | am after and not
the individual. 1t is, therefore, matter
of indifference to me whether they cma-
nate from "D." or "Dixie," Senator
4Oumans OF GARNER but no Gideonite.
propose, then, to continue to reply to
the arguments used against an agricul-
tmal college separate and apart from the
State University, and in favor of con-
tlnuing and enlarging the present use
less annex. L may remark, however,
| that 3d." and "DiXie," Mt least, arc so
manlfestly one and the same person,
that L shall treat the arguments OF the
two us coming from the same source. /
may also remark that when [ consider q
point clearly established, | shall frankly
admit it, and treat it accordingly. Such
L consider to be the case with reference
to the conditions of the Hitch bill.
In former article / made reference to
certain suppOsed-not asserted condi-
tons Of that bill, for did not have it
before me. AS is we'll known, it has
been the custom since the war to insert
clause In such appropriations, provid-
ing that they shall be used impartially
between the two races, and presuming
that the Hatch bill contained such q
clause, and in order to meet the require
ments of the State law as to two stations
L suggested locating the low-country ex-
perlmental station in connection with
Clatlln University. But now, on careful
examination of the bill itself, and as
~. shows, it contains no condition of
this kind, but leaves it pretty much en-
tlroly with the Legislatures Of the several
States and Territories to dispose of the
amount appropriated, as they sec fit, for
the purposes therein designated.
1t is true that Section j provides that
where two such colleges (agriculturaD or
departments of colleges exist, the amount
allowed shall be equally divided between
them, "unless the Legislature of such
State or Territory shall otherwise direct. "
30 IN our case it must be admitted that
u depends entirely upon the action of
Sur ST Legislature as to whether or not
Enn Eln University shall receive any por-
moI ooI.. VI .tnls fund, as it does of the origi-
&c. rn asFleIltural fund. Here is not the
no o 20 ~ 81 place to enter into discussion
Siom i " Tne fn abstract justice of such diver
gbot CIoa; @ presume it will not be denied
n" CO. .liiI II mas an agricultural annex. if
rmo ~ro1oo5 aooS'9 University has. The donbt OK
papers as to whether or not Soutb S%p Co%
Giih@ tln a, Toutd be entitled TO the benefits of
tne "hatch Act" have mderstooI ,I' % %
Ier ieler 10 doubt as to whether an in.ti,','
tlon containing so few stndenta ond =,
professors too, as l have shown--of acri. ,lri'